Re: Memtable size and garbage collection in JVM

2010-03-04 Thread Jonathan Ellis
A lot of churn is hard on Cassandra because of http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DistributedDeletes, but Cassandra is so fast that it may make up for that depending on your needs. It's not designed to eliminate i/o entirely, no. But if you set RowsCached=100% in 0.6 you'll get something pretty

Re: Memtable size and garbage collection in JVM

2010-03-04 Thread Avinash Lakshman
Also huge memtables will increase your recovery time. Which may not be something you want. Avinash On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Jonathan Ellis jbel...@gmail.com wrote: A lot of churn is hard on Cassandra because of http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DistributedDeletes, but Cassandra is so